No Reservations Travel Club

About Me

Started as a club for budget and independent travelers, we have been in existence since July, 2001. We meet at 7:00 pm the first Tuesday of each month, February-December, at the Arcade Public Library Community Room, 2443 Marconi Avenue, as a library sponsored program. The meetings feature a speaker, plus time for exchanging information within the group. There are no membership dues. The second Tuesday of each month we have dinner at an ethnic restaurant. Each summer we have a potluck dinner at my home. In 2005 I added club tours to our activites and they have been very successful. To be added to the e-mail list, or for further information, contact Judith Anshin by e-mail at penguinatlaw@gmail.com and please put "travel club" in the subject line.

Monday, July 13, 2015

August meeting

The August meeting of the travel club is Tuesday, August 4th at 7 pm at the Arcade Library Community Room. Our speaker is Chris Smith who will speak about The Amazon from Manaus to Belem. In November of 2013 he and his wife traveled in the Brazilian State of Amazonas, where they fished for piranhas, searched for monkeys in the jungle, had a five day home stay in Belem, and much more. Don't miss this interesting evening.

Monday, May 11, 2015

E-Mail problems

If your email service is comcast.net or aol.com, you probably are not getting my two email messages each month. Many, many members are having this problem. It appears these providers treat my group mailings as spam and they are diverted from the inbox. You need to find a mailing in your spam box and mark it as safe so you will get the messages in the future. Once my address is on your safe list, you should get the two messages I send each month.

Monday, March 09, 2015

Italian toll road VIA card

One of our members has a pre-paid VIA card for use on toll roads in Italy. It has approx. 42 Euros value left on it. She would like to sell it, so if you are planning a driving trip to Italy, email me at penguinatlaw@gmail.com and I will facilitate the sale.

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Burglar Alarm problems

A few times over the years we have had a problem with people not following instructions to only exit the meeting from the back door onto the patio. Because the library closes at 8 pm, before the end of our meetings, the rest of the building has an armed burglar alarm. When people use the rest rooms and then exit from the front of that hallway, ignoring the do not exit sign, the burglar alarm is set off. At the end of the November meeting, it was set off again! This puts us in a difficult position with the library because the library is charged for the false alarm, even when we immediately call the emergency number to report it as a false alarm.

If this continues, I will have no choice but to declare the rest rooms closed after the meetings. Please help me resolve this problem short of this drastic step.

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Travel Consulting

I, Judith Anshin, am available to consult with travelers to plan trips, find best deals, etc. I am a member of the Century Club, having visited over 130 countries and having lived in many for various periods of time. I have been the leader of this travel club since 2003 and am also a contributing editor with International Travel News and have been a travel writer for over 40 years. I have many connections with tour operators in this country and in other countries as well. I usually can save you a substantial amount of money.

The only charge for a consultation is a donation to the Friends of the Belle Cooledge Library. Please email me if you are interested in a consultation.

Monday, January 17, 2011

DON'T BUY CHILEAN SEA BASS

On my recent trip to Antarctica I learned that what is sold as Chilean Sea Bass is not a sea bass at all but a threated species known as Patagonian Toothfish. When it wouldn't sell under it's real name, the name Chilean Sea Bass was given to it, but the fish is not even a bass to begin with. It is often illegally fished, and the endangered albatross are often ensnared in the nets, killing them. Please help protect these threatened species by not buying the fish in supermarkets or restaurants, and passing the word to your friends.